All posts tagged "Mccain Campaign"

Redstate is threatening to blackball anyone from the McCain campaign who can't prove they didn't talk to Vanity Fair, because they make the hiring decisions. And the double negatives.

My, how the mighty have fallen. Over at the fabulous Jed Report, he screen captured a Fox News chyron:

Let me relish this moment and this video. I'm white. And I'm straight. And I live in one of the states where people are apparently "real" Americans. Getting booted from the "real America" club is actually not as simple as voting straight Democratic, but this is my ticket to Othersville: the dreaded atheism.

[rebelmouse-image 24748321 original_size="275x330" expand=1]I hate to say it, because it comes out of place of defensiveness (especially since they're supposed to be a conservative magazine that mainstreams right wing ideas to a large extent), but this article in Politico defending the media's "unbalanced" approach to the election is right. It's true that the media has had more "negative" stories about McCain and more "positive" ones about Obama, but, to quote Politico, there's a reason for this.

McCain campaign aides are running around declaring that the problem with Sarah Palin is that she's a classic female stereotype---the diva, (via) the woman who refuses to accept her leash and destroys everyone in her path because of it. As tempting as it is to believe that Sarah Palin's big mouth is evidence that she's disobedient, though, I'm thinking the real source of this story is that said aides are putting their applications for their next jobs together and want to make sure that they aren't held responsible for the enormous error that was adding a barn-storming paranoid racist Bircher to the ticket. It may be true that she's stupidly willful and unwilling to let people who understand politics better tell her what to do, or it may not be true. Either way, the reason that these aides are leaking these blame-shifting stories is to protect their own reputation.

McCain is giving up on Colorado, and is instead focusing on Pennsylvania.